ATHENS (Reuters) -A 38-year-old man detained in Greece during a Europol crackdown on international cybercrime this month has denied accusations of creating the infostealer VenomRAT, according to a legal source and court documents.
This month, the pan-European law enforcement cooperation agency Europol said that as part of its “Operation Endgame” it targeted infostealers Rhadamanthys, the Remote Access Trojan VenomRAT and the botnet Elysium. More than 1,025 servers were taken down worldwide.
The malware infrastructure dismantled consisted of hundreds of thousands of infected computers containing several million stolen credentials, Europol said.
The Albanian national has denied the charges, which include producing, possessing and trafficking the surveillance software Venom and Pandora, at least since 2022, assisting illegal monitoring of data and money laundering, according to the documents seen by Reuters.
He also said he was not informed about all the charges in time.
French and U.S. authorities have also launched investigations. An extradition request by France is pending.
(Writing by Renee Maltezou;Editing by Alison Williams)
